{"id":1206,"date":"2025-02-11T17:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2025-02-12T04:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:38:53","slug":"entering-the-third-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"Entering the Third Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, during an inpatient mental health stay\u2014an experience I do <strong>not<\/strong> recommend\u2014I was challenged to list my reasons for living. Among them, I wrote down <em>experiencing the amazing world<\/em> and <em>seeing and feeling new things<\/em>. These remain true. Most days, the world feels magical, enchanting, and full of sparks of wonder. That hasn\u2019t changed, but something else has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During that same stay, I found a book tucked among the usual legal procedurals and espionage novels: <strong>Solitude: A Return to the Self<\/strong> by <strong>Anthony Storr<\/strong>. The last few chapters described how great composers and creatives often have their lives divided into early, middle, and late periods. Their late periods, in particular, tend to bring a shift in priorities\u2014a turning inward, a refinement of core values, a deeper resonance with what truly matters. Reading that, I recognized that I, too, am entering my own late period. And if I\u2019m going to explore and experience this shift, I may as well make an offering of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-radius:0px;margin-right:0;margin-left:0\">That offering is <strong>Anomalous Auntie<\/strong>. Like my previous podcasts, <strong>Immediatism<\/strong> and <strong>Pointing Texts<\/strong>\u2014linked here on the site\u2014this will be a collection of essays and book chapters read aloud for anarchists. But this time, with a focus on the second half of life. A continuation, a new movement, a vantage point shaped by time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, during an inpatient mental health stay\u2014an experience I do not recommend\u2014I was challenged to list my reasons for living. Among them, I wrote down experiencing the amazing world and seeing and feeling new things. These remain true. Most days, the world feels magical, enchanting, and full of sparks of wonder. That hasn\u2019t changed, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,38,28,26,30],"tags":[47,43,44,45],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-changeandadaptation","category-cycles","category-individual","category-reflections","tag-age","tag-cory","tag-immediatism","tag-pointing-texts","post_format-post-format-audio"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Solitude-book.webp",800,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Solitude-book-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Solitude-book-300x300.webp",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Solitude-book-768x768.webp",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Solitude-book.webp",800,800,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Solitude-book.webp",800,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Solitude-book.webp",800,800,false]},"author_info":{"info":["anomalousauntie"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Blog Posts<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Change &amp; Adaptation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/?cat=28\" rel=\"category\">Cycles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">Individual<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/?cat=30\" rel=\"category\">Reflections<\/a>","tag_info":"Reflections","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anomalousauntie.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}